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ASLA Announces 2008 Professional Awards
29 Projects Selected by Prestigious Jury
2008-06-03
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WASHINGTON, April 15, 2008—The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Professional Awards. The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 29 projects to receive awards. The awards will be presented on October 6 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “These awards represent the pinnacle of design achievement by the world’s leading landscape architects,” said ASLA’s President, Perry Howard, FASLA. Click here to go to the Call for Entries and view the jury. Click here to visit the main Awards page for details and high resolution images. General Design Category | Awards of Excellence |  | The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd, Seattle, Washington
client: Millennium Park, Inc. |  | Honor Awards |  | Boston Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, Cambridge, Massachusetts
client: Boston Children’s Museum | 
| Walden Studios, Alexander Valley, California Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, California |  | Lost Dog Wash Trailhead, Scottsdale, Arizona Floor Associates, Inc, Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: Weddle Gilmore Architects, Tempe, Arizona
client: City of Scottsdale |  | Fountain Promenade at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico Grupo De Diseño Urbano SC, Mexico
client: Citizen’s Regent Group and Revive Chapultepec Board of Donors |  | Lagoon Park: Living at the Edge of Wilderness, Santa Barbara, California Van Atta Associates, Inc., Santa Barbara, California
client: University of California, Santa Barbara |  | Washington Monument, Washington, DC Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania
client: National Park Service |  | James Clarkson Environmental Discovery Center, White Lake Township, Michigan MSI Design, Columbus, Ohio
client: Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority |  | Gannett/USA Today Headquarters, McLean, Virginia Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, Ltd., Alexandria, Virginia
client: Gannett, Inc.
|  | Residential Design Category, co-sponsored By Garden Design Magazine
 | Award of Excellence |  | Ketchum Residence, Ketchum, Idaho Lutsko Associates, San Francisco, California |  | Honor Awards |  | Bassil Mountain Escape, Faqra, Lebanon Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture, Broumana, Lebanon
client: Jimmy Bassil
|  | New Poetic Mountain Habitat-the Fragrant Hill 81 Yard, Beijing, China
Zhu YuFan, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
Research Center of Landscape vs. Design Study, Bejing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute, P.R. of China
client: Liu Yong | .jpg)
| Unfolding Terrace, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York Terrain-NYC, Inc., New York, New York | 
| Malibu Beach House, Malibu, California Pamela Burton & Company, Santa Monica, California
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| Coastal Island Retreat, Spring Island, South Carolina Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc., Washington, DC
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| Passage to the Lake, Stoneham, Maine Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, New York, New York
client: Margaret Nomentana
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| Beach House, Amagansett, New York Dirtworks, PC, New York, New York | 
| San Juan Island Residence, San Juan Islands, Washington Paul Broadhurst & Associates, Seattle, Washington
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| Altamira Ranch, Palos Verdes, California Marmol Radziner & Associates, Los Angeles, California
|  | Analysis and Planning Category | Award of Excellence | 
| Viet Village Urban Farm, New Orleans, Louisiana Mossop + Michaels
Urban Landscape Lab LSU, New Orleans, Louisiana
client: Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation |  | Honor Awards | 
| Port Lands Estuary: Reinventing the Don River as an Agent of Urbanism, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, New York, New York
client: WATERFRONToronto
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| New Terrain for the North Lake Region of Chongming Island, Shanghai, China SWA Group, Los Angeles, California
client: Shanghai Urban Planning Administrative Bureau
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| Orange County Great Park Comprehensive Master Plan "A Vision for the Great Park of the 21st Century", Irvine, California Ken Smith Workshop West, Irvine, California, Team Lead, and Mia Lehrer + Associates, Los Angeles, California
client: City of Irvine / Orange County Great Park Corporation
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| Porchscapes: An Affordable LEED-Neighborhood Development
(LEED-ND) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
client: Habitat for Humanity of Washington County | 
| New Orleans Riverfront: Reinventing the Crescent, New Orleans, Louisiana Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts
client: New Orleans Building Corporation |  | Communications Category | Honor Awards |  | So What? ahbe landscape architects, Culver City, California
client: ahbe landscape architects |  | Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Landscape Journal: Design, Planning, and Management of the Land, Madison, Wisconsin SUNY ESF, Syracuse, New York
client: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)
|  | Louisiana Speaks: Our Voice. Our Plan. Our Future Center for Planning Excellence, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
client: LRA Support Foundation
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